Questions tagged [internet-speed]
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Can Internet speed decrease the further away a certain (server in a) country is from you?
Is there a general rule of thumb, per how many thousands km your Internet speed can naturally decrease and by how much? Something like "10 Mbit/s per 1000 km". (I've got from this SE answer that ...
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Identifying software affecting download speed
I am trying to troubleshoot a family members PC that is getting a very poor download speed compared to all other computer on the network.
All other computers get around 23Mb/s down 4Mb/s up. But this ...
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Can a cheap ADSL modem router be responsible for frequent disconnects from and speeds from/to my ISP?
I experience frequent disconnects from my ISP (about 100 every day). Some connections do not last longer than a few seconds.
I also experience very slow internet download and upload speeds – even ...
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How to test your router's data transfer speed? [duplicate]
I've an internet connection of 50Mbps, but on speed test on my laptop over WIFI, it shows variable speed, sometimes 20Mbps or sometimes even less than 1Mbps. So I connected WAN cable directly to my ...
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Very poor Wifi signal on laptop
So this is an interesting one.
My partner and I both have HP laptops, mine is a HP 250 G4 Laptop bought about 18 months ago, hers is a 15-ba099na bought just a few months ago.
Her previous laptop was ...
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Why is my router wireless slow? How to fix slow wireless download speed? (Netgear R6200)
I have a NetGear R6200v2 router and my connection is slow. I get 65 Mbps download speed direct to the cable modem, and the same when using a wired connection. But over wireless I only get 18 Mbps.
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Is there any significant difference between DSL and Fiber connection?
I read many internet articles stating that people usually are not getting full internet speeds they are advertised to because ISPs advertise their packages as an up to, so if someone subscribed to ...
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How to ping from a router
I am trying to determine current download speed using ping.
I want to calculate download speed for the router and not for any connection or device.
How can I ping 8.8.8.8/google.com from a router ?
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Could unusually high upload rates cause dropped connections during online gaming?
So I play Counter-Strike Global Offensive online from time to time, and recently I've noticed that my ping is about 30ms (pretty decent), but every other minute the connection drops for 5-10 seconds, ...
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Inconsistencies in Wifi across machines
My home runs a Wi-Fi network on 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz, and my router is in the center of the house. I have a gaming PC I built back in 2012 (specs below) on which I've installed a new SSD with a fresh ...
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Computers have drastically different download speeds on the same network
I have four devices, Windows 8.1 laptop (mine), Windows 10 laptop, iPhone SE, Android phone, connected to the same network and the Windows 8.1. laptop has a significantly slower download speed (~15 ...
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Sharing Wireless Network Speed
I will be moving in with two other roommates (one of which lived there previously) into a house where one (also new to the place) roommate is currently living. We are paying for a 100mbps connection ...
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Slow internet speed over Ethernet
For unknown reason the internet over wired connection is extremely slow.
Here's the setup:
Cable modem -> Router (Netgear R7000, latest firmware) -> PCs; laptops, etc.
At some point all internet ...
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Why are my ADSL2+ data rates are not matching data rate standards?
I have been in curiosity ever since when I checked my ISP ADSL Data Rates they are not according to the standard values.
Can anyone confirm that why they are not like that?
Following Table shows all ...
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Download speed lower than it should be?
I recently installed the Windows 10 Creator's Update and ever since my download speed is lower than it should be. (It used to be around 30mbps, now it's around 10-5)
This has been happening with my ...
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How can I optimise wired throughput on my local network router?
I've got a nominal full-duplex 500Mbit connection through to my ISP (WebPass). When wired directly to their Ethernet port, my machine reliably gets SpeedTest.net results of ~650Mbit down, ~850Mbit up.
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Why is my internet speed not at its full potential?
My current internet package is for speeds up to 150 Mbps yet when I conduct an internet speed test online it only goes up to around 80 Mbps. I am using a triband ASUS router which is capable of much ...
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How to monitor network speed for an office
So I wrote a python script that calls a network speed test and gets the download speed, upload speed, and ping. However I realized that this won't be accurate since it's only the stats based on my own ...
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How to fix Ethernet speed being stuck at 10 Mbit in Win10?
I have a gigabit router (TP-LINK C9) and a on board network card supporting gigabit (Intel 82567lf gigabit), yet when I plug in the network cable, all I see is 10 Mbit connection.
How do I set the ...
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Increase speed of TCP traffic from A to B
I have read about and used software which claims to lower your in-game ping by rerouting the traffic from your client to the gameserver by using some kind of private network and sophisticated ...
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Wifi speed is 11Mbps but my download speed is 600-700Kbps
I am subscribed a 11Mbps wifi in Jakarta, Indonesia. However my download speed is about 4.94Mbps after testing it on Speedtest.
Here is the problem:
my download speed is about 600-700kbps in ...
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Getting Abnormally high download speeds
I finished using FUP of my broadband connection(25GB 2MBps and 512KBps after that).
so technically i should be getting 512/8 = max 64kbps for download, right?
here, iam getting 130s, 140s. but ...
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What's the best way to conduct a reliable internet speed test over a given period of time?
I have been having some issues with internet speeds, particularly in the evenings. I realize doing sporadic speed tests on a website like speedtest.net won't exactly give me a reliable idea of my true ...
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How to find a specific computer slowing down the internet connection
I am working in a factory having about 100 PCs on the same network.
The internet speed is very slow and I was wondering if there is any tool to find the computer slowing down the internet speed.
I ...
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Router limits internet speed
I've got:
- an internet subscription for 500 Mb/s;
- the Netgear Nighthawk R7000;
- and an annoying problem.
When im cable-connected i achieve almost 500 Mb/s, so that's more than great.
But, ...
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How can I figure out where is best to put my wireless receiver?
I have recently moved into a town house, which means that my wireless router is on the first floor of the house along with my living room and kitchen. This is fine for the vast majority of things, but ...
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What is the difference between network/link Speed and Bandwidth? [duplicate]
I did some research and some say they are same and interchangeable but some says they are different.
What I understand is that Bandwidth is the amount of data carried while the Speed is the data ...
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Why file transfer is taking longer time over network here?
I transfer the file(140 MB size) from my network in india to client network in US through VPN. It takes around 40 mins. Here are ISP's speed
My ISP speed is 4 Mbps and clients is also 4 Mbps.
Here ...
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What does an Internet speed of 4 Mbit/s mean?
When I check my upload/download speed it’s 4 Mbit/s. This means that I can download/upload at 4 megabits per second. But I do not completely understand what this means.
For example, if I am uploading ...
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Network Speed when using two switches + wireless router
With my ISP I am paying for 150 down and 30 up (about to upgrade to 300 down and 30 up) but not getting that at all locations in my house.
I have taken my computer around to different spots and ...
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LTE speed is faster than WiFi, but downloads take much longer
My WiFi connection has a download speed of 5 Mbps whereas my LTE 4G SIM card speed averages around 30 Mbps. But while downloading from the Google Play Store the time taken by the LTE SIM card is ...
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Internet speed monitor for windows 7
I have a tool on my android device that displays the amount of bytes uploaded and downloaded at any given time by all applications on the phone (ex. 5Kb/s, 10Mb/s). Is there any tool on windows 7 that ...
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Does this speed numbers show I can improve my internet connection?
I have a... quite slow Internet connection, but some weeks ago to now I'm experiencing signs that lead me to believe that maybe my Internet connection is faster than I'm experiencing day to day.
My ...
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How I am getting double internet speed? Just wondering
I was wondering, how it is possible that I am getting double speeds?
I am paying for 100mbps, but sometimes I am getting over 200mbps (pic below).
I have fiber cable run to my apartment, then fiber ...
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File Download speed is 60kbps but speedtest shows 5.7mbps. Why is that?
My speed test on checking shows 5.7 Mbps but when i try to download files: it downloads in the speed of 60 kbps only? I'm getting a lot of nuisance.
Help me
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How can I "allocate" internet bandwidth to a specific app or device
So, I need to download a huge sized game (GTA 5). Its size is about 70 GB, but as my internet connection is not stable (sometimes fast, sometimes slow) and sometimes is very low, I need a way to "...
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DSL modem show 24Mbps speed, I get 1Mpbs
My D-Link DSL modem shows around 24Mbps downstream, but I get only the speed of 1Mbps (112kb/sec).
I purchased 1Mbps, but I wonder why the modem shows 24Mbps downstream ?
Is it possible to access ...
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Alfa AWUS036h has slow speedtest compared to my other wlan card
I am running Win10 (upgraded, not a clean install) and have two wlan cards. One of them, a qualcomm, was included in the packaging of something else when I bought my PC parts... so it is nothing ...
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Windows 10 half speed Internet
My wife has an HP all-in-one 21-2024 that came with Windows 8.1. I upgraded the OS to Windows 10 a few weeks after the release date.
My wife has been complaining about how slow her Internet ...
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Why is my internet not as fast as it says it is
I have done multiple online internet speed tests, including ookla, and all have said that my internet has a download speed of around 15Mb/s.
I am an avid PC gamer, and when I download games off of ...
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CloudFront download speed in Europe: expected vs. reportable
As a user in Europe, what is the download speed I should expect from a service powered by AWS/CloudFront? At what point should I report a slowness and to whom?
For WeTransfer, from an example link I ...
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What is the speed difference between Wi-Fi, Ethernet and USB to Ethernet?
So I got a new ASUS ZenBoon a month ago and I just got a USB to Ethernet adapter and wanted to test the connection speeds so I went to the SpeedTest website and did several tests with the adapter and ...
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Curious case of slow data rate
I have a Netgear router (JNR1010) which supports data rate up to 150 Mbps.
My laptop is connected with the router and so is my mobile (Redmi 2 Prime, 802.11n).
Now, when I create a FTP Server from ...
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Why do ISP's offer faster download speeds than upload speeds? [duplicate]
In most cases (in the USA) the major ISP's offer moderate download speeds, but the uploads speeds are a fraction of the upload speeds (normally about 10%).
Why is this done? It would seem better ...
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Is traffic shaping for speed tests a legitimate approach?
VW recently got into a lot of trouble for designing a car that performed differently when being tested compared to when it was actually out on the road. This seems a bit analogous to ISPs providing ...
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Very low Upload speed support on my Shared DSL Line?
I am having confusion that why am I getting too much minimum upload speed support on my ADSL Shared Line as...Is it due to ADSL technology that is supports that much minimum Upload speed which is ...
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How do I accurately measure internet speed? [closed]
There is a very similar Q already.
Here I am asking for a test to accurately measure the upload and download speed. I tried two/three of these services mentioned in the link (and some others also) ...
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How to increase RWIN Value in Windows 10?
We all know that a lot of things have been deprecated and there was also the introduction of auto scaling in earlier windows versions.
Right now after using this analyzer http://www.speedguide.net/...
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Direct ethernet vs router+ethernet
I have a 60m long CAT5 Ethernet cable connected to my cable modem. When I connect my laptop directly to the ethernet cable speed tests show my maximum internet speed (20Mbps). If I connect the 60m ...
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Torrent: better to upload faster for a short time, or slower for a long time? [closed]
Let's assume that I finished to download a torrent, and now I want to seed the file, until I reach some share-ratio threshold (let say 1.0 or 1.5).
What is the better strategy to be "socially fair" ...